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Patricia W. Kitcher (born 1948) is the Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, [1] widely known for her work on Immanuel Kant and on philosophy of psychology. She has held many positions at different universities, is a founding chair of a committee at the University of California, and has a lead role in ...
In business ethics, Ethical decision-making is the study of the process of making decisions that engender trust, and thus indicate responsibility, fairness and caring to an individual. To be ethical, one has to demonstrate respect, and responsibility. [ 1 ]
[63] [64] Alternative theories include the model of moral motives, [65] the theory of dyadic morality, [61] [62] relationship regulation theory, [66] the right-wing authoritarianism scale developed by Bob Altemeyer, [67] the theory of morality as cooperation, [68] [69] the theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition, [48] [49 ...
Kitcher's three criteria for good science are: [14] 1. Independent testability of auxiliary hypotheses "An auxiliary hypothesis ought to be testable independently of the particular problem it is introduced to solve, independently of the theory it is designed to save" (e.g. the evidence for the existence of Neptune is independent of the anomalies in Uranus's orbit).
Central to the work is a model of community inquiry that constitutes three elements essential to an educational transaction - cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. Indicators (key words/phrases) for each of the three elements emerged from the analysis of computer conferencing transcripts.
Denis Collins was born in the Bronx and raised in Carlstadt, New Jersey.He received a B.S. in business administration from Montclair State University in 1977, an M.A. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 1987, and a PhD in business environment and public policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) [6] is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance within the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms.
Orch OR has been criticized both by physicists [14] [54] [34] [55] [56] and neuroscientists [57] [58] [59] who consider it to be a poor model of brain physiology. Orch OR has also been criticized for lacking explanatory power ; the philosopher Patricia Churchland wrote, "Pixie dust in the synapses is about as explanatorily powerful as quantum ...